Re: Weird lockups

["Matthew R. Pavlovich" <mpav@purdue.edu>]

> 	The CMD646 is in line with CMD's history of shipping botched
> controllers. Do not enable DMA or higher speed transfers if you wish to
> keep your data intact.

Will i see any problems if I don't enable the IDE support all together?
Would I be better off:

*Not enabling any IDE support (risk potential probs on PCI bus)

*Enable generic IDE support (i have heard dma doesn't work w/ alpha)

*Enable CMD646 w/ only normal io (default w/ $arch=alpha)

Any thoughts on PCI Quirks?  or is that mostly a ia32 fix?  This box is
used as a build machine for debian, as well as devel for LiViD and GLX, so
stability = #1 priority.

> 	I've not yet managed to put my Matrox Millennium II card into any
> of the higher bpp modes. The screen gets blanked but then stays there.
> The machine still runs, but I cant go to another VC as it will not switch
> back to text mode or something. SysRq works though...

Are you trying fbdev, or X?  if X, which ver?

Thanks,
Matthew R. Pavlovich